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Utøy or Utøya is a village area in the municipality of Inderøy in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village sits about halfway between the village of Vangshylla (to the southwest) and the village of Sakshaug (to the northeast).
Utøya (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈʉ̂ːtˌœʏɑ] ⓘ) is an island in the Tyrifjorden lake in Hole municipality, in the county of Buskerud, Norway.
- A National Tragedy
- The 10th Anniversary in 2021
- The Aftermath and Trial in Oslo
- The Struggling Survivors of Utøya
- The Memorials
- 22 July in Books and Film
It's hard to believe it's been so long since the events of Oslo and Utøya. They were some of the first things I wrote abouton this blog, taking place less than three months after I moved here from the UK. I learned a lot about my new home country in the weeks that followed. In 2021, the 10th anniversary refocused attention on the incident, the afte...
A few years ago, Norway took a collective look back at the events as the tenth anniversary thrust the events back into the national spotlight. Various events were planned to commemorate the terror attacks in both Oslo and on Utøya island. The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST)announcedthat the Norwegian Police would be armed for the day itself...
Norway's immediate response surprised and impressed many around the globe. Then prime minister Jens Stoltenberg summed things up by saying, “our response is more democracy, more openness and more humanity.” The criminal trial began nine months later in April 2012, with a media circus camped outside throughout. Breivik did not deny the events, so mu...
In 2020, researchers from the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies published results from the latest in a series of studies on the Utøya survivors. It found that one-third of the survivors suffer from symptoms equivalent to or very close to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Almost half of the participants in the study sti...
The original proposal for a striking memorial that would feature a gash through the island was finally abandoned several years ago following public disagreement. Opposition from neighbouring communities has continued, but has not failed to stop the construction of a national memorial at the Utøya quay. However, the memorial wasn't finished in time ...
The events of 2011 have been recorded in various book and film projects over the past decade. On Netflix, 22 Julyfocuses on the story of one survivor struggling to come to terms with the incident. It would have been very easy to focus such a movie on the tragic events on the island. While that's of course featured, the film focuses in much more on ...
Jul 15, 2021 · Discovering Breivik was Norwegian, that he was “one of us” — as the title of journalist Åsne Seierstad’s book on the attacks called it — was a shock.
Jul 30, 2012 · One year ago, a heavily armed man dressed as a police officer appeared on the beach of a youth summer camp in Norway. The kids had no way of knowing he was targeting them for the ills of Europe....
Jul 22, 2021 · Ten years after Anders Breivik killed 77 people in Norway, a look at how the country has changed.
Oslo and Utøya attacks of 2011, terrorist attacks on Oslo and mass shooting on the island of Utøya in Norway on July 22, 2011, in which 77 people were killed—the deadliest incident on Norwegian soil since World War II.
